After a year-long closure and a $6.8 million renovation, the historic Japanese Garden at the Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, reopened April 11 with a new ceremonial teahouse, teagarden, waterfall, accessible paths, and a restoration of the Japanese House. The teahouse, called Seifu-an (the Arbor of Pure Breeze),...
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The San Fernando Valley Branch of the Sogetsu School of Ikebana and The Japanese Garden (Suiho-en) in Van Nuys will present sculptural creations of floral and plant materials on Sept. 9, from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm. Last gate admission at 3:15 pm. For the rare opportunity of being surrounded by the beauty of...
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As a living museum, Earl Burns Miller Japanese Garden at Cal State Long Beach campus manages a valuable collection of Japanese black pines, maples and ginkos, considered to be the backbone of the garden’s design. www.csulb.edu/~jgarden EMB Japanese Garden will hold the following program: Pruning Workshop: June 24 9 a.m.-noon Admission: adults $5, seniors...
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The Friends of the Japanese Garden in California State University Long Beach presents the 2011 Winter Lecture featuring Kenneth I. Helphand, author of Defiant Gardens: Making Gardens in Wartime on Friday, February 25, at 7:00 pm at Daniel Recital Hall in the CSULB campus. Light reception and book signing to follow lecture. The Friends...
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(April 29, 2010) The Government of Japan announces the recipients of its Spring 2010 Decoration. Mrs. Masako Takiguchi of Phoenix, Arizona, former Chairperson of the Himeji City Committee of Phoenix, will be awarded with The Order of the Rising Sun, Silver Rays. Mrs. Masako Takiguchi was born in Seattle, Washington. She is 78 years...
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Suiho En Japanese Garden inside the Donald C. Tillman Water Reclamation Plant in Van Nuys presents the Arts and Culture of Okinawa and Japan on Sunday, May 2 at 12:00 pm at its location, 6100 Woodley Ave, Van Nuys, CA 91406. Sunday, May 2 Program starting at 12:00 PM – Entrance to garden including...
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ARIZONA — The Japanese Friendship Garden of Phoenix will host a Children’s Day and Kite Festival on Saturday, April 3 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Margaret T. Hance Park. The festival is free. In its sixth year, the Children’s Day Festival will feature an anime-manga (Japanese animation and comics) drawing booth, hands-on...
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Cultural News, February 2009 Issue By Takeshi Nakayama and Shige Higashi Dr. Takeo Uesugi, professor emeritus of landscape architecture at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award for Contributions to the Design of Japanese Gardens Outside Japan on Saturday, March 28, 2009, at the Long Beach Hilton Hotel during the...
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